📬 Welcome to The Bubble!

👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻 The Bubble is a weekly newsletter about all things Spain created by Ian Mount and Adrian Bono.

The Bubble explains Spanish politics, economy, society and pop culture. If you don’t speak the language or simply just moved here, then this newsletter is right for you.

🇪🇸 Our goal is to help you understand what’s happening in Spain. If you love explainers, then hit that subscribe button right now.

Our readers are locals, foreigners, students, tourists, diplomats, journalists and immigrants of all ages with an interest in this country.
We’ve been providing them with a weekly news update since early 2023 and we’re very excited with the community we’ve created.

🌎 We cover the serious stuff (politics, economy and social issues) and the trivial stuff (lifestyle, social media, and dank memes).

🏛️ On Thursdays, we send you our weekly analysis of what happened in Spain which usually includes political drama, palace intrigue and other serious business. These are published in English and Spanish.
🍸 On Fridays, we send you our top five options for weekend activities in Madrid. Unmissable concerts, swanky art galleries, off-Gran Vía independent plays and food fairs. It’s all there. These are published in English.
🚨 We also regularly publish deep dives and guides to the biggest issues in Spain today, from the booming real estate market to how to get a Spanish visa. These pieces, for our paid subscribers, are published in English and, usually, Spanish as well.

🕒 We keep it short and simple. We value your time.

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The Bubble offers a mix of free and paid content. Free subscribers have access to our weekly newsletter and weekly events guide in English. Paid subscribers get all that plus the weekly Thursday newsletter in Spanish, as well as our deep dive features and guides. We’d also like to note that paid subscriptions allow us to offer even more and better content, like more deeply reported features and our upcoming podcast. 🙏
Our basic subscription is €5/month or €30/year (we wanted to make it cheaper but Substack won’t let us set a monthly price below €5).